not bought this yet but wierdly it reminds me of the legendary saltersgate inn just below the hole of horcum on the road between pickering and whitby here in yorkshire its been empty for several years now and is derelict ( did have a pint and sandwich there once) It has a very sinister past allegedly including being visited by the devil and the murder of an excise man and had a fire that was kept burning without going out for 200 years to prevent the devil or the ghost of the excise man returning not sure if there is any hidden treasure though. It still stands empty but no one appears to own it or plan to redevelop it. even wierder it never appears to get any worse and i tend to drive past it several times a year . Not even sure if the fire is still tended
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not bought this yet but wierdly it reminds me of the legendary saltersgate inn just below the hole of horcum on the road between pickering and whitby here in yorkshire its been empty for several years now and is derelict ( did have a pint and sandwich there once) It has a very sinister past allegedly including being visited by the devil and the murder of an excise man and had a fire that was kept burning without going out for 200 years to prevent the devil or the ghost of the excise man returning not sure if there is any hidden treasure though. It still stands empty but no one appears to own it or plan to redevelop it. even wierder it never appears to get any worse and i tend to drive past it several times a year . Not even sure if the fire is still tended
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That place is chock full of story ideas! Although sadly they intend to tear the building down, which is a huge shame.

That place is chock full of story ideas! Although sadly they intend to tear the building down, which is a huge shame.

I was looking at pics of it here. Not the most interesting looking old building I've ever seen being a big two story rectangle but still surprises me they're allowed to knock it down.

I'll get this adventure some time soon, I tend to wait until there's a few things I want from DTRPG and get them together.

It used to be quite pleasent inside especially where the fire that never went out was but I think its location let it down in the later years theres not many farms etc nearby only raf fylingdale so it relied on passing traffic from the hole of horkum( made by a giant who threw a great clod of earth at his wife during an argument allegedly it missed and landed where roseberry top(could be misspelled) now stands near Guisborough.)

Though beneith fyling dales there is allegedly the mysterious black meadow where no amount of wierdness occurs such as mist men vanishing schollars and a villlage that appears usually after the mist man is seen and if course theres the dreaded bargheists that prowl the area. There has to be some reason that area has so many stone crosses

Top place names. When I'm trying to come up with a place name for a game I just drop a finger on a Google map of the UK and zoom right in (or sometimes another country if I'm after a different sound). I can't stand those made up fantasy place names you get in a lot of RPG and computer games. I'm going to apologise in advance to our American friends for saying this, but you tend to be particularly guilty of this one

Robb 1 wrote:roseberry top(could be misspelled)

I remember from somewhere that most berry place names are from the anglo-saxon bury, meaning fort. Not sure if the rose is also from something different to what it sounds like.

Robb 1 wrote:Though beneith fyling dales there is allegedly the mysterious black meadow where no amount of wierdness occurs such as mist men vanishing schollars and a villlage that appears usually after the mist man is seen and if course theres the dreaded bargheists that prowl the area. There has to be some reason that area has so many stone crosses

I solved the mystery of Roseberry Topping at least. Wikipedia claims it's from the Viking name Odin's Bjarg, meaning the god Odin's mountain. Over the centuries it became Othensberg, Ohenseberg, Ounsberry, Ouesberry and finally Roseberry. So berry here is from berg for mountain, as in iceberg, not burg for fortress, but those words are related anyway. Topping is a local variation on Topp meaning peak. So people by then had long forgotten the original meaning and started calling it Odin's Mountain Mountain

I solved the mystery of Roseberry Topping at least. Wikipedia claims it's from the Viking name Odin's Bjarg, meaning the god Odin's mountain. Over the centuries it became Othensberg, Ohenseberg, Ounsberry, Ouesberry and finally Roseberry. So berry here is from berg for mountain, as in iceberg, not burg for fortress, but those words are related anyway. Topping is a local variation on Topp meaning peak. So people by then had long forgotten the original meaning and started calling it Odin's Mountain Mountain

I live in a village on the slopes of Penhill... The "Pen" part means "Hill" in the local celtic, so the earlier inhabitants just called it hill. The later danes and saxons decided that wa its name so called it penhill. Meaning of course hill hill.